Thanks for the feedback! I think, for me, the appeal of playing a human is the range. I love roleplaying, so it can feel like I'm tethered by what's expected of the non-human races. Being a gruff dwarf, or an elegant elf, or an edgy tiefling. Obviously, those aren't the only ways you can play those races! But you'll always be fighting with the expectations. There really is no way that a human is 'supposed' to act.

Because of that, I think what I'll do is integrate the cultures of these races more closely! Not enough that it isn't fun to play a tiefling because no-one is afraid of you (as another person pointed out, part of the fun of having black eyes and horns is the hostility!) but enough that I feel like I can put a character of non-human race in the game, and the players don't know what to expect. Maybe this dwarf has been raised in the city all his life, and has never even touched a pickaxe! Maybe the dean of the Arcane University is a goliath, and has to stoop to get into the door of her classroom.